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covered with hair. It is of medium height, standing from 10 to 12 inches at the 

 withers, and weighing from 5 to 6 Ibs. In colour, the upper-parts are brown of 

 variable shade, minutely speckled with yellow ; while the flanks are spotted with 

 white or buff on a brown ground ; the spots being more or less elongated, and often 

 passing into short longitudinal stripes. This chevrotain is found in Southern 

 India and Ceylon at elevations below two thousand feet, extending northwards as 

 far as Orissa on the east coast, and to the Western Ghats near Bombay on the 

 west. The other four species have the upper-parts of the body uniformly coloured, 

 and the skin between the two branches of the lower jaw completely naked and 

 glandular. Of these the largest species is the larger Malayan chevrotain (T. napu), 

 standing 13 inches in height at the shoulder, and characterised by its dark smoky- 



THE SMALLER MALAYAN CHEVROTAIN ( T V nat. size). 



grey colour, with the under-parts greyish- white without any rufous or fulvous 

 edging. This species occurs in South Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, and the 

 islands of Sumatra and Borneo. 



The two other Malayan species are rufous either over the whole of the upper- 

 parts or on the flanks and the edges of the white area of the under-parts. 

 Stanley's chevrotain (T. stanleyanus), from some of the Malayan Islands, is inter- 

 mediate in size between the preceding and following species, and has all the upper- 

 parts bright rufous. On the other hand, the smaller Malayan chevrotain (T. 

 javanicus), which is the one represented in our illustration, is the most diminutive 

 member of the group, and is greyish above, with the sides brightening to rufous, 

 and a dark line, which may be nearly black, running along the nape of the neck. 

 The under-parts are whitish, more or less mixed with rufous, but there is generally 

 (as in our illustration) a broad reddish or brown stripe running up the front of the 

 chest. With the exception of the royal antelope (p. 307), this chevrotain is the 



